Between 1969 and the early nineteen-eighties a unique parabola took place in Italy that was both historical and theoretical. We are referring here to the birth, development and decline of a research project that had assumed Sraffa’s book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities as its...

<em>Marx in the matrix. L’algebra del "lavoro vivo"</em> - This paper provides a general overview on the recent interpretations of Marx’s analysis of value, money and income distribution. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 introduces the original Marxian formulation of labour theory of...

<em>Marx in the matrix, ovvero Marx tra il "circuito monetario" e Sraffa. Un commento a Passarella</em> - This paper shows that it is possible to develop Marx’s categories of new value and surplus value in a consistent model of competitive prices such as Sraffa’s model. In particular, Marx’s theory...